Just to expand a bit on the answers given: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use Win32::File;

my $hidfnm = 'hideme.txt';
my $getatr = 0;

my $getret = &Win32::File::GetAttributes($hidfnm, $getatr);
if ($getret)
{
     if ($getatr & HIDDEN)
     {
          print "File is hidden.  Unhiding\n";
     }
     else
     {
          print "File is not hidden.  Hiding\n";
     }
     # Toggle the HIDDEN flag
     my $setatr = ($getatr ^ HIDDEN);
     my $setret = &Win32::File::SetAttributes($hidfnm, $setatr);
}

__END__

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Results: 

D:\PerlMonks>hide1

D:\PerlMonks>echo>hideme.txt This is a test.

D:\PerlMonks>dir
 Volume in drive S is SteveData
 Volume Serial Number is 78B4-33A0

 Directory of D:\PerlMonks

07/09/2016  12:38 AM    <DIR>          .
07/09/2016  12:38 AM    <DIR>          ..
07/09/2016  12:38 AM                88 hide1.bat
07/09/2016  12:41 AM               448 hide1.pl
07/09/2016  12:41 AM                17 hideme.txt
               3 File(s)            553 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  29,695,066,112 bytes free

D:\PerlMonks>perl hide1.pl
File is not hidden.  Hiding

D:\PerlMonks>dir
 Volume in drive S is SteveData
 Volume Serial Number is 78B4-33A0

 Directory of D:\PerlMonks

07/09/2016  12:38 AM    <DIR>          .
07/09/2016  12:38 AM    <DIR>          ..
07/09/2016  12:38 AM                88 hide1.bat
07/09/2016  12:41 AM               448 hide1.pl
               2 File(s)            536 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  29,695,066,112 bytes free

D:\PerlMonks>perl hide1.pl
File is hidden.  Unhiding

D:\PerlMonks>dir
 Volume in drive S is SteveData
 Volume Serial Number is 78B4-33A0

 Directory of D:\PerlMonks

07/09/2016  12:38 AM    <DIR>          .
07/09/2016  12:38 AM    <DIR>          ..
07/09/2016  12:38 AM                88 hide1.bat
07/09/2016  12:41 AM               448 hide1.pl
07/09/2016  12:41 AM                17 hideme.txt
               3 File(s)            553 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  29,695,066,112 bytes free

D:\PerlMonks>

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In reply to Re: Hidden file attribute in Win32 by marinersk
in thread Hidden file attribute in Win32 by bitman

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